Dang, your plan sounds fantastic! Too bad Rogers wasn't an option for me: $6 bucks for caller ID as well, $6 for voice mail, $0.25 per SMS, $0.20 per MMS + outrageous data transfer fees, $7 or something monthly "system access fee," $1 monthly 911 access fee... and it goes on and on
About that system access fee, you can sign up on the class action lawsuit against cellular providers. See the Merchant Law Group.
It is arguably more contradictory of basic economic reasoning to try and figure out some consistent rate that receiving service providers get paid by the calling provider being the sole billing party.
Bullshit, such a billing system already exists and is efficient. When you do a long-distance call over a landline, the callee uses up resources but only the caller pays. Why can't it be the same for cell phones is beyond me.
"It was discovered by Wilhelm Killing (1888-1890)"
I know great mathematicians do their best work while they're young, but did this guy really do all this before he died at the age of 2? I'm impressed...
Nah, it probably just means that he discovered the thing in 1888, but it's only in 1890 that he understood what the hell it was that he had discovered. I know it would take me at least that long to even just know what this whole stuff is about.
I can't be arsed to keep track of what's coming out when. I used to do that. I find it a waste of time now. Rather then make extra trips to GS to preorder I can just walk into BB, CUSA, CC, Target, Wal-Mart, or whoever else and grab one off the shelf.
Plus, I don't know if that's the case everywhere, but around Montreal, BestBuy stores and FutureShop stores are HUGE. Their video games section alone is larger than the average EB store, and only stocked with new games. I don't think I've ever seen a (new) game at EB that I couldn't find at BestBuy.
As for Wal-mart being cheaper... If Gamestop has the game for $39.99 then Wal-mart has it listed for $39.88. That $.11 isn't worth wading through the waves of scary people that shop at Wal-mart all the time.
That is true. I bought a NDS-Lite last week, and I did some shopping around to see if I could get it cheaper. BestBuy had it at $139.99, and I reluctantly went to Wal-mart to try and get it cheaper. Wal-mart was selling it at $139.82, a whole 0.1% off! I went back to BestBuy and paid the extra $0.17 to clear my conscience.
Don't you mean $55 used? I thought the current practice was to take off $5 from new, at least that's the case with Wii games.
Which is precisely why I buy all my games brand new and factory sealed (none of that gutted stuff). Buying used to save $5? You gotta be kidding me. I wouldn't consider buying a used game that's worth $60 new for anything more than about $35 or maybe $40. $55 is a rip-off and you're better off buying new.
I'd rather see my money encourage Nintendo by buying new than EB-Games by buying used.
2. I was wondering what kind of people pay for game guides when you can find:
a) better guides online
b) more entertainment value playing the game yourself.
Pffff... playing the game yourself is overrated, plus it's soooooo last-year. Get with the times dude, this is the 21st century! Games aren't meant to be played now, they're meant to be watched.
(And by the way, MENTIONING moster-cable among audio pros is a faux-pas in and of itself). Expensive digital cables are a HUGE ripoff, because jitter is largely a consequence of the source, rather than the transmission... and a well-made (yes, just look at it) $10 digital cable is going to sound no different from the $1000 MIT insanity.
So true. A consumer care TV show up here made a report about stores like BestBuy and al. trying to sell you cables costing several hundred dollars. They even went to a lab to have the cables analyzed and tested, and it showed that a $0.99 HDMI cable bought on eBay performed no worse than a $250 monster cable.
See (and watch) the report here (French, search for the words "câble numérique" or scroll about 80% down the page).
Where are you that a manager needs a reason to fire someone? Here we're all 'at-will' employees and can be fired at any time for no reason.
Where are *you* that a manager can fire someone for any arbitrary reason? What if your manager is a homophobe and just discovered your coworker is gay. Is he allowed to fire him for being gay?
Sure, the employee handbook might say "violations of policy will result in punishment up to and including termination", but when was the last time you heard about someone repeatedly ignoring IT policy or instruction and getting fired for it?
It's happened. Just about every time a manager wants to fire someone either randomly or for reasons that are in a gray area in terms of legality, he'll start a file on that employee and log every policy violation to justify the termination.
The problem here is that the HD is probably worth $40-$120 -- the cost of a suit is much higher so WorstBuy basically knows they can do whatever they want.
From the article : I got on my computer and bought a Western Digital 1TB hard drive from BestBuy.com
Please. Tell me where you found a 1TB hard drive for $40-$120. I really want to do my shopping there from now on.
According to "speed kills" and "people can't choose a safe speed" arguments, the German Autobahns should be the most dangerous places to drive in the (developed) world. They're not. Moreover, they're not even _close_ to being so.
I have seen that argument many times, but I can't seem to find statistics backing that up. I would like to believe it, I would really do. Do you know where I could find numbers like say, number of accidents per motorist, or per kilometers travelled? How many of those accidents had injuries or deaths?
Well, drag racing on a deserted road isn't going to cause much damage even in a worse case scenario, the most you can do is kill yourself or wreck your own car. And none of that is covered by the required third-party insurance anyway.
Thing is, if you're 99.9% certain that it is indeed a lone road that that there is nobody else there, it's ok, but there's still 0.1% chance that there's some pedestrian there that you didn't see and that you're simply going to kill with your reckless behavior.
As a result, the people behind them got very angry and began active extremely dangerously. One van even had an accident when he passed them on the right shoulder and clipped a car that was parked in the emergency lane.
Which goes to show that people who are disrespective of speed limits are reckless drivers who don't care about endangering other peoples' lives as long as they get to their destination faster.
Also, speed differentials kill more than speed itself. Everybody on the road is doing 75 is safer than everybody doing 55 except for somebody wandering along at 25.
Got a reference for that or are you just pulling numbers off your ass?
So whereas you use to be able to do 120km/h in a 110 zone without too much to worry about, now you'll get pinged for 114km/h. No-one without an agenda seriously thinks a ~3.6% speed differential has any meaningful impact on road safety.
You are right with that. However, the line has to be drawn somewhere. Sure, going 114 isn't a whole lot more dangerous than going 110. Hey, going 116 isn't a whole lot more dangerous than going 114 either. What the heck, 118 isn't a lot more dangerous than 116, right? How about 120 compared to 118? Or say 122 rather than 120?
Where should the line be drawn? Using little increments always ends up with "Going X+2 isn't much more dangerous than going X", but in the end, going 122 really is more dangerous than going 100. The line has to be drawn somewhere, and there is a sign by the side of the road telling you exactly where this line is drawn. Most police officers are even kind enough to allow a little buffer over the limit to account for inaccuracies in your speedometer.
Because following a badly set speed limit - *especially* on higher speed roads like motorways - actually *increases* risk. *DRIVERS* have to earn trust ? What a joke. Maybe if the government was more interested in saving lives than making money - and demonstrated it - we'd be able to trust them with things like speed limits.
Obviously, you are able to demonstrate that current speed limits increase risk, right? I mean, you wouldn't dare say the government put those limits arbitrarily without yourself being able to prove what you claim, right? Tell me, if every single vehicle on the highway travels at the same speed (say 110 km/h), how is that dangerous?
The creationist zealots will likely take this bit of news, and embrace it as evidence that the scientific community is trying to be deceitful by withdrawing a "clearly correct" paper, for political reasons.
What I don't get is how can creationists claim that this paper is true and a proof of anything, when it mentions the Earth existed billions of years ago. We all know God created the Earth about 5000 years ago, right?
As a new owner of an R4DS micro SD cartridge I'm glad to report that homebrew on the DS is totally wicked.
May I ask where and how you bought it? I've been browsing their website and can't find how to buy. Their "Where to buy" page gives me a nice empty list on all 6 continents.
On what part of the planet? Northern hemosphere or southern? The Americas or Asia? What time of night (or day)?
This link (which is right in the summary) give you all the answers you seek...
But basically, if you can see Perseus, you can see the comet. It's visible from the northern hemisphere. Asia/America doesn't really matter... wait till your part of the world is in the dark and look up.
If Nintendo is 100% successful, on the other hand, they will save some revenue, but at the cost of pissing off a lot of users, legitimate and otherwise, who might decide to take their business elsewhere.
Tell me, of the current 10M+ current Wii owners, how many actually know about thing Hong Kong stuff, and how many really care? The only users who'll be pissed off are the users which Nintendo (or just about any other company) doesn't want anyway.
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About that system access fee, you can sign up on the class action lawsuit against cellular providers. See the Merchant Law Group.
Bullshit, such a billing system already exists and is efficient. When you do a long-distance call over a landline, the callee uses up resources but only the caller pays. Why can't it be the same for cell phones is beyond me.
Nah, it probably just means that he discovered the thing in 1888, but it's only in 1890 that he understood what the hell it was that he had discovered. I know it would take me at least that long to even just know what this whole stuff is about.
Does that make the big missile get on reverse and gently get back into its silo?
I wouldn't consider it a switch, since it does not have an on/off setting. Once The Button is pressed, you can't unpress it.
Plus, I don't know if that's the case everywhere, but around Montreal, BestBuy stores and FutureShop stores are HUGE. Their video games section alone is larger than the average EB store, and only stocked with new games. I don't think I've ever seen a (new) game at EB that I couldn't find at BestBuy.
That is true. I bought a NDS-Lite last week, and I did some shopping around to see if I could get it cheaper. BestBuy had it at $139.99, and I reluctantly went to Wal-mart to try and get it cheaper. Wal-mart was selling it at $139.82, a whole 0.1% off! I went back to BestBuy and paid the extra $0.17 to clear my conscience.
Which is precisely why I buy all my games brand new and factory sealed (none of that gutted stuff). Buying used to save $5? You gotta be kidding me. I wouldn't consider buying a used game that's worth $60 new for anything more than about $35 or maybe $40. $55 is a rip-off and you're better off buying new.
I'd rather see my money encourage Nintendo by buying new than EB-Games by buying used.
Pffff... playing the game yourself is overrated, plus it's soooooo last-year. Get with the times dude, this is the 21st century! Games aren't meant to be played now, they're meant to be watched.
So true. A consumer care TV show up here made a report about stores like BestBuy and al. trying to sell you cables costing several hundred dollars. They even went to a lab to have the cables analyzed and tested, and it showed that a $0.99 HDMI cable bought on eBay performed no worse than a $250 monster cable.
See (and watch) the report here (French, search for the words "câble numérique" or scroll about 80% down the page).
Where are *you* that a manager can fire someone for any arbitrary reason? What if your manager is a homophobe and just discovered your coworker is gay. Is he allowed to fire him for being gay?
It's happened. Just about every time a manager wants to fire someone either randomly or for reasons that are in a gray area in terms of legality, he'll start a file on that employee and log every policy violation to justify the termination.
From the article : I got on my computer and bought a Western Digital 1TB hard drive from BestBuy.com
Please. Tell me where you found a 1TB hard drive for $40-$120. I really want to do my shopping there from now on.
Cardboard boxes are a whole lot more eco-friendly than plastic transparent packaging though. Although cardboard boxes plus RFID I'm not so sure.
I have seen that argument many times, but I can't seem to find statistics backing that up. I would like to believe it, I would really do. Do you know where I could find numbers like say, number of accidents per motorist, or per kilometers travelled? How many of those accidents had injuries or deaths?
I suck at googling :-(
Thing is, if you're 99.9% certain that it is indeed a lone road that that there is nobody else there, it's ok, but there's still 0.1% chance that there's some pedestrian there that you didn't see and that you're simply going to kill with your reckless behavior.
Which goes to show that people who are disrespective of speed limits are reckless drivers who don't care about endangering other peoples' lives as long as they get to their destination faster.
Got a reference for that or are you just pulling numbers off your ass?
You are right with that. However, the line has to be drawn somewhere. Sure, going 114 isn't a whole lot more dangerous than going 110. Hey, going 116 isn't a whole lot more dangerous than going 114 either. What the heck, 118 isn't a lot more dangerous than 116, right? How about 120 compared to 118? Or say 122 rather than 120?
Where should the line be drawn? Using little increments always ends up with "Going X+2 isn't much more dangerous than going X", but in the end, going 122 really is more dangerous than going 100. The line has to be drawn somewhere, and there is a sign by the side of the road telling you exactly where this line is drawn. Most police officers are even kind enough to allow a little buffer over the limit to account for inaccuracies in your speedometer.
Obviously, you are able to demonstrate that current speed limits increase risk, right? I mean, you wouldn't dare say the government put those limits arbitrarily without yourself being able to prove what you claim, right? Tell me, if every single vehicle on the highway travels at the same speed (say 110 km/h), how is that dangerous?
Wow, Thanks. I expect having to import this from China or Hong Kong, but having it shipped from Montreal (to Montreal!) is pretty amazing.
What I don't get is how can creationists claim that this paper is true and a proof of anything, when it mentions the Earth existed billions of years ago. We all know God created the Earth about 5000 years ago, right?
May I ask where and how you bought it? I've been browsing their website and can't find how to buy. Their "Where to buy" page gives me a nice empty list on all 6 continents.
This link (which is right in the summary) give you all the answers you seek...
But basically, if you can see Perseus, you can see the comet. It's visible from the northern hemisphere. Asia/America doesn't really matter... wait till your part of the world is in the dark and look up.
So, did you get the low-five or the high-six? Either 12k or 975k... seems like a flip of the coin to me.
Tell me, of the current 10M+ current Wii owners, how many actually know about thing Hong Kong stuff, and how many really care? The only users who'll be pissed off are the users which Nintendo (or just about any other company) doesn't want anyway.